by-the-world-forgotten

Updated: May 4, 2025

There was a typhoid scare quite a passing and unjustified scare, but strong enough to do its deadly work; and almost overnight Belpher passed from a place of flourishing industry to the sleepy, by-the-world-forgotten spot which it was when George Bevan discovered it.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - A Damsel in Distress